[rickspencer3]

I pay for ad-free YouTube. I also pay for a ton of extra storage in Google drive.

I find the constantly closing down and shifting of services to be a slight annoyance but not really too impactful in my personal usage. For example, moving Google podcasts and YouTube music into YouTube has been a pretty sad degradation. But not really a deal breaker for me.

What I would never ever do is build a business on top of Google. They seem so cavalier about pulling the rug out from under you. I can only imagine if you have for example services running in Google cloud, how they would treat you if you were counting on a service that they thought wasn't worth it to maintain anymore. Shutting down apis that people were using like this just seems very on-brand for them to me.

[prmoustache]

Building any non super short term business on top of a unique, non interchangeable third party service is always a bad decision anyway.

[rickspencer3]

I would argue that there are good business to be built on top of AWS and Azure catering to the users of those services, and very little chance that Amazon or Microsoft would pull the rug out from under you based on their track records.

[ta1243]

Yet this entire site is based around building stuff on AWS services which push lockin